“My dear, you are a mathematician. You're even more, you're a philosopher of mathematics. So do this for me: Tell me the… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
To me, mathematics is like playing the violin. Some people can do it - others can't. If you don't have it, then… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
“I'm the 'e' in mathematics. Overlooked and forgotten, unless it is known well or studied closely. Neither is likely.” — Thalia Skibo Copy Share Image
I will live a hope-filled life every day. I will handle my problems as opportunities in a different, more effective manner, based… — Zig Ziglar Copy Share Image
I didn't know what kinds of questions to ask in mathematics. In physics, I could see there were things that were known… — Margaret Geller Copy Share Image
I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Although I was first drawn to math and science by the certainty they promised, today I find the unanswered questions and the… — Lisa Randall Copy Share Image
“He wished that the mathematics of the world were like the mathematics of the heart - then his equal love and hate… — Tiffany Reisz Copy Share Image
I presume that few who have paid any attention to the history of the Mathematical Analysis, will doubt that it has been… — George Boole Copy Share Image
Though determinants and matrices received a great deal of attention in the nineteenth century and thousands of papers were written on these… — Morris Kline Copy Share Image
I became an atheist because, as a graduate student studying quantum physics, life seemed to be reducible to second-order differential equations. Mathematics,… — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
As for mathematicians themselves: don't expect too much help. Most of them are too far removed in their ivory towers to take… — Apostolos Doxiadis Copy Share Image
The mathematician requires tact and good taste at every step of his work, and he has to learn to trust to his… — James Whitbread Lee Glaisher Copy Share Image
It is India that gave us the ingenious method of expressing all numbers by means of ten symbols, each symbol receiving a… — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
The study of geometry is a petty and idle exercise of the mind, if it is applied to no larger system than… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Until now, physical theories have been regarded as merely models with approximately describe the reality of nature. As the models improve, so… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
Truth . . . and if mine eyes Can bear its blaze, and trace its symmetries, Measure its distance, and its advent… — Charles Mackay Copy Share Image
One of the things that ultimately led me to leave mathematics and go into political science was thinking I could prevent nuclear… — Paul Wolfowitz Copy Share Image
Mathematics may not teach us how to add love or how to minus hate. But it gives us every reason to hope… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One can prove or refute anything at all with words. Soon people will perfect language technology to such an extent that they'll… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
The object of mathematical rigor is to sanction and legitimize the conquests of intuition, and there was never any other object for… — Jacques Hadamard Copy Share Image
“Theorem: Consider the set of all sets that have never been considered. Hey! They're all gone!! Oh, well, never mind...” — David Batchelor Copy Share Image
1 is not prime, by definition. 2 is an unnatural prime, 4 is an unnatural prime, and 6 is an unnatural prime.… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“The mathematical challenge of finding the greatest good can expand the heart. Empathy opens the mind to suffering, and math keeps it… — Derek Thompson Copy Share Image
“Desar's chosen field in mathematics was so esoteric that nobody in the Institute or the Math Federation could really check on his… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
If you enjoy math and you write novels, it's very rare that you'll get a chance to put your math into a… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
Our notion of symmetry is derived form the human face. Hence, we demand symmetry horizontally and in breadth only, not vertically nor… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
It's very rare that someone who is so good at the language of numbers, is as good at the language of life.… — Josh Lawson Copy Share Image
To a mathematician the eleventh means only a single unit: to the bushman who cannot count further than his ten fingers it… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Some things that satisfy the rules of algebra can be interesting to mathematicians even though they don't always represent a real situation. — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
... a result once generally accepted by mathematicians is seldom retracted, and then only with great pangs. The Nature of Mathematics — Max Black Copy Share Image
We need more math classes, we need more science. It's the art of math and the art of science that creates all… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
I was good at math, math was my thing - but I was not nearly good enough to be an astrophysicist. I… — Sam Trammell Copy Share Image
Once we know the number one, we believe that we know the number two, because one plus one equals two. We forget… — Jean-Luc Godard Copy Share Image
Hydrodynamics procreated complex analysis, partial differential equations, Lie groups and algebra theory, cohomology theory and scientific computing. — Vladimir Arnold Copy Share Image
I do not believe there is anything useful which men can know with exactitude that they cannot know by arithmetic and algebra. — Nicolas Malebranche Copy Share Image
The best teacher is not the one who knows most but the one who is most capable of reducing knowledge to that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Religion is so great a thing that it is right that those who will not take the trouble to seek it if… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
I don't like to be negative about math because it really teaches you a lot of great things. You kind of use… — Madison Davenport Copy Share Image
Algebra is the intellectual instrument which has been created for rendering clear the quantitative aspects of the world. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
